al-Mustakfi I

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Ruled over

Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo

Successor of

al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah Ahmad al-Qabi

Predecessor of

al-Wathiq bi-Llah Ibrahim ibn al-Mustamsik

His reign saw

Al-Dhahabi composes Tarikh al-Islam and his great compilations, c. 730/1330· Al-Dhahabi, professor of hadith at Umm al-Salih and al-Nafisiyya, c. 710/1310· Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740· Al-Subki teaches at the Mansuriyya, Cairo, 723/1323· Al-Subki becomes chief qadi of Damascus, 739/1339· Al-Subki's journey to Damascus and the Pilgrimage, c. 710/1310· Shaykh of Dar al-Hadith al-Zahiriyya, Cairo, Shawwal 723· Battle of al-Riyyas· Battle of Amroha· Battle of Ania (1304)· Battle of Cibistra (1304)· Battle of Dimbos· Battle of Fajj al-Naam (1318)· Battle of Guadalhorce (1326)· Battle of Jaghatu· Battle of Pelekanon· Battle of Qara Darra· Battle of Teba· Battle of Temzezdekt· Battle of the Irtysh River (1306)· Battle of the Vega of Granada· Battle of Vashlovani (1303)· Battle of Vega de Pagana (1339)· Birth of Taj al-Din al-Subki in Cairo, c. 727/1327· Capture of Tunis (1329)· Conquest of Bursa· Death of Ibn al-Tiqtaqa, 709/1309· Djinguereber mosque built at Timbuktu· First Siege of Gibraltar· Fourth Siege of Gibraltar· Ibn al-Mulaqqin is born at Cairo, Rabi' I 723/March 1323· Orphaned, the boy is raised in al-Mulaqqin's house, about 724/1324· Qur'an, the 'Umda and first hearings at Cairo, about 733/1333· Hindushah ibn Sanjar translates al-Fakhri into Persian, 723-4/1323-4· Ibn Battuta completes his first pilgrimage· Ibn Battuta sets out for the pilgrimage· Birth of Ibn Habib al-Halabi at Damascus, Sha'ban 710/early 1311· Ibn Kathir's compilations: al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya and his other works, about 738/1338· Ibn Kathir moves to Damascus and grows up there, about 709/1309· Ibn Kathir attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya and is tried on his account, about 726-728/1326-1328· Ibn Kathir keeps close to the hafiz al-Mizzi and marries his daughter, about 735/1335· Ibn Qayyim's first khutba at Nadim al-Din's mosque in the Ghuta, 2 Rajab 736/15 February 1336· Ibn Qayyim's pilgrimage with the Syrian caravan, 731/1331· Ibn Qayyim attaches himself to Ibn Taymiyya on the latter's return to Damascus, 712/1312-13· Birth of Ibn Rajab in Baghdad, Rabi' I 736· Ibn Taymiyya's exile in a tower at Alexandria, 709/1309· The last imprisonment in the Damascus citadel until death, 726-728/1326-1328· Ibn Taymiyya's return to Damascus under Tankiz, 712/1313· Ibn Taymiyya at the victory of Shaqhab, 702/1303· The divorce fatwas and the Damascus citadel imprisonment, 718-721/1318-1321· The Wasitiyya councils and the Cairo citadel imprisonment, 705-707/1306-1307· Mansa Musa takes the throne of Mali· The hajj of Mansa Musa· The Abu Ya'qub–al-Nasir Muhammad embassy exchange· Al-Mizzi takes the shaykhhood of Dar al-Hadith al-Ashrafiyya, Damascus, 718/1318· Al-Mizzi is jailed over Ibn Taymiyya and the Khalq Af'al al-Ibad, 705/1305· Al-Mizzi takes the Nuriyya shaykhhood after Ibn Abi al-Fath, early 740/1339· Death of Muhyi al-Din Yahya ibn Fadl Allah, 738/1338· The arrest of al-Mustakfi and his exile to Qus· Al-Nuwayri in the audition sessions: Sahih al-Bukhari under Wazira bint al-Munadhdha, 715/1315· The second copy of the Nihaya: eighteen volumes in under ten months, 721-722/1321-1322· Al-Nuwayri's death at Cairo, 21 Ramadan 733/5 June 1333· The Iwan al-Bahri dream: al-Nuwayri still at the Nasiriyya, 13 Dhu al-Qa'da 729/8 September 1329· Ibn Abbada has al-Nuwayri flogged and confiscates his property, c. 710/1310· Al-Nuwayri joins the exiled al-Nasir at al-Karak, Rabi' II 709/September 1309· The Karasunkur-Aqqush defection to the Mongols and al-Nuwayri's stand, 712/1312· Composition of the Nihaya begins: volume one dated 714/1314· Recall to Cairo as mubashir of the royal estates and Mansuri waqfs, Ramadan 703/1304· Return from Tripoli to Cairo and the Delta inspectorate, 712/1312· Al-Nuwayri fights beside Mughultay, 29 Sha'ban 702/18 April 1303, eyewitness of Shaqhab· Al-Nuwayri arrives at Tripoli as sahib diwan al-insha', Safar 710/July 1310· Orhan Gazi Mosque begun in Bursa· Orhan reburies his father Osman in Bursa· Al-Safadi's chancery service: Safad, Aleppo, al-Rahba, 723-726/1323-1326· Al-Safadi's earliest attested copying, 718/1318· Al-Safadi at Damascus meets Ibn Taymiyya, 717/1317· The Sankore mosque at Timbuktu· Second Siege of Gibraltar· The great Multan tomb raised about 715· Siege of Algeciras (1309)· Siege of Almería· Siege of Béjaïa· Siege of Bejaia (1331–1332)· Siege of Ceuta (1309)· Siege of Mudanya (1321)· Siege of Oujda (1314)· Siege of Patras (1338)· Siege of Tlemcen· Taj al-Din al-Subki arrives in Damascus with his father, 739· Third Siege of Gibraltar· Al-Umari's arrest and confiscation, Sha'ban 739/1339· The Ibn Fadl Allah family moves to the Cairo chancery, 729/1329· Al-Umari's release from prison, Rabi' II 740/1339· al-Nasir's anger and al-Umari's dismissal, c. 737/1337· Dropping the Khutba for Two Caliphs and the Empty Pulpits

Sources

1. Tarikh al-Khulafa — al-Suyuti (Dar al-Minhaj edition)